Happiness is like a cat. If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you. It will never come. But if you pay no attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing up against your legs and jumping into your lap.
-William J. Bennett
Quotations
Happiness
It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.
-Thomas Jefferson
The only satisfactory definition of happiness is wholeness.
-Helen Keller
To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with Spring.
-George Santayana "George Santayana"
You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.
-Albert Camus
It might be that to surrender to happiness was to accept defeat, but it was a defeat better than many victories.
-W. Somerset Maugham
"Of Human Bondage"
The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.
-Karl Marx
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it; it would be hell on earth.
-George Bernard Shaw
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-Ernest Hemingway
Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.
-George Washington
